Quotes About Politics

I think that Barack Obama faces a level of divisiveness, and I don't mean on a national level in terms of the North and the South and the Civil War; I really mean just politically.

Things need shaking up politically, culturally.

Actually, I consider myself to be pretty politically conservative.

I guess I am politically very naive.

Unfortunately, our country has become so politically polarized that one side routinely attempts to destroy and discredit the other.

Jake Corman, he and I disagree on issues politically, but Jake Corman is not a bad guy.

You wouldn't expect ABC or any of the mainstream networks to take a position on immigration, health care, anything. But at Univision, it's different. We are pro-immigrant. That's our audience, and people depend on us. When we are better represented politically, that role for us will recede.

I think it's dawning on some Democrats that obstructing the Patriot Act, like they've been obstructing everything else, is bad for them politically.

We've never been as active politically as we have been as artists. But politics always brush up against the arts, oh, about every four years in this country.

I really got to a point where I thought maybe I would want to be involved politically.

There is no music that can't be used politically, but the motives behind the creation of that music can be non-political.

America is militarily overstretched, politically polarized and financially indebted.

As I say, I as an abstract artist was active politically.

I got more and more politically active and just followed the course of feminism and sexual liberation.

I'd be curious to find out, but I don't think people in the entertainment industry are proportionally more or less serious politically than anyone in the landscaping industry.

We talk about freedoms for African-Americans but unless you have more than one option politically, how free are you?

I've been trying to learn how to not be so conflicted about things like my own anger. I've always had a place in my music for my anger as a way of compensating for not having a mechanism to express it in my everyday life. So I've been trying to be more true to myself, and that helps me to chill out a little bit. But politically, uh-uh. No.

I feel very much ideologically, politically if you like, and emotionally part of the European cinema.

I think women do write politically all the time. Margaret Atwood does; Doris Lessing does.

'Easy Rider' was never a motorcycle movie to me. A lot of it was about politically what was going on in the country.

My political mission is as acute as ever. For me, in addition to kind of looking at the world and trying to engage in my society politically, having the kid around sort of makes me check in with myself. I think you're all busy trying to fix the world, but what about yourself?

Back in the 1970s, Kodak tried to give $25m to a black civil rights organisation in Rochester, New York. The company's shareholders rose up in arms: making this politically charged offering wasn't the reason they had entrusted Kodak with their money. The donation was withdrawn.

I was very politicized always. I was very conservative politically, because I'd seen what the communists did to my country.

I'm very politically active, but that has nothing to do with my charity.